Copies of the Sudanese daily newspaper Al-Tayyar were confiscated by the country's security service on Saturday (5 July).The privately owned newspaper had only been allowed to resume publication last month after it was suspended in June 2012 for publishing a series of investigative articles on alleged corruption within Sudan's cotton industry. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sono Rosenberg, a longtime copy editor for Random House who worked with authors including Maya Angelou and James Michener, died at her home in New York on March 12. She was 98. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author and the Centre for Inquiry planning free ebook versions of his books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian following a ‘stirring towards atheism’ in some Islamic countriesRichard Dawkins is responding to what he called the “stirring towards atheism” in some Islamic countries with a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Announcing an IPO on the Warsaw Stock Exchange's NewConnect index for this year, Poland's Legimi ebook and audiobook subscription pursues development in Germany, China. The post Poland’s Ebook and Audiobook Subscription Service Legimi Plans IPO for International Expansion appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook on Friday announced a pair of deals that gets the social networking giant deeper into a pair of popular consumer pursuits — music and baseball. On the music front, Facebook is following up earlier deals it struck with Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV Music Publishing by lining up a... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2018-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kids Can Press author Paulette Bourgeois and illustrator Josée Bisaillon have created a book for General Mills Canada's third annual educational campaign for ecological support. And bees may be among the beneficiaries. The post Canadian Honeybee Campaign Will Distribute 100,000 Free Copies of... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shelley spent nine months by Lake Geneva writing the story of the bringing to life of a monster Percy Shelley’s correction of Mary Shelley’s misspelling of “igmmatic” in the notebooks in which she scrawled the story of Frankenstein – “enigmatic o you pretty Pecksie!” he wrote – will be seen in... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper publishers hunting for subscriber revenue have keyed in on new metrics. The post In an era of loyalty, newspaper publishers focus on time spent and frequency appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ten years ago this month, I joined the L.A. Times book blog, Jacket Copy. Blogs were a thing then — they were becoming a cultural force and were beginning to be accepted by institutions, including The Times. It was clear that blogs were a way to get news and commentary onto the internet quickly.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An appetite for hyper-local journalism hasn’t diminished, despite digital media’s disruptive impact. The post City Magazines Fill the Newspaper Gap appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the extraordinary interest for Michael Wolff's tell-all about the Trump White House catching Holt by surprise, the publisher was able to ship enough copies to accounts to meet at least some of the demand for the book last week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With most retailers waiting for in-demand copies of Michael Wolff’s 'Fire and Fury,' publisher Henry Holt announced that it has just shipped more than 700,000 copies of the title. The Macmillan imprint said it has more than 1.4 million copies on order. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown said the response to the explosive exposé of Donald Trump's presidency has been "extraordinary", with the publisher fulfilling orders of 330,000 print copies and with "tens of thousands" of ebooks already sold. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The most talked about book of the new year sold 28,567 print copies in first two days on sale, according to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'A four-month programming project ended up taking two years,' as Iguana Books publisher Greg Ioannou says. Once expected to be a new base of operation for Pubslush, his Toronto-based author services crowdfunding company PubLaunch is to open this month. The post Can Crowdfunding Author Services... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nikesh Shukla and Julia Kingsford's new literary agency, The Good Agency, dedicated to championing under-represented voices in publishing, is receiving a grant for over half a million pounds from Arts Council England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Storify, the beloved digital publishing tool that allowed writers to chronologically arrange social media posts, will soon be no more. The curation service will go offline May 16, 2018, the company announced today. For those who have used the service and want to preserve that content, they’ll... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK publisher and commentator Michael Bhaskar talks of the centricity he sees in curation as the essential service and activity of publishers. The post Information Overload: Curation as an Essential Service of Book Publishers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cengage is to launch Cengage Unlimited, a subscription service enabling students to access its entire digital portfolio for one set price, in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mexico has become the first Spanish-language market in the Americas in which Nielsen's research service Bookscan operates. The post Nielsen Bookscan Launches Service in Mexico at Guadalajara Fair appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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